Extract text from Color palettes (COLORS)
To convert COLORS Palettes to another format, you need Krita or other Settings software.
To convert other file formats to the "Color Scheme Configuration" file type, you need software like Krita or a similar tool.
A .colors file is an application-specific configuration file primarily used by Krita to store UI color schemes and palette data. It acts as a set of instructions telling the software which colors to display in its interface or active swatches. Secondary uses include custom color sets for Corel Painter and block interface colors in Scratch 2.0.
The main disadvantage of the .colors format is its restrictive, proprietary nature. These files are tightly coupled to their parent applications. Because they are configuration data and not actual image files, they cannot be opened by standard OS image viewers, web browsers, or generic graphic design software without native support.
Users typically need to convert .colors files to extract the underlying palettes into universally supported formats like GPL (GIMP Palette), ACO (Adobe Color), ASE (Adobe Swatch Exchange), or raw TXT files containing HEX codes. Standard online converters fail to process them because they incorrectly treat the file as a raster image rather than a text-based or XML configuration file.
This is often a closed, application-specific format. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. convert.guru can bypass the proprietary extension, inspect the internal text or XML content, and display the raw data. If our analysis detects the underlying HEX or RGB codes, viewing or extracting the palette is still possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your COLORS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted SWATCHES, ASE, PNG, KRA, KRA~, KPL, CMYK, NUMBERS, HEX and RGB files.
If you want to convert COLORS file to CMYK, NUMBERS, HEX, RGB, JPG, PDF, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF or WEBP, you can use Krita or similar software from the "Application Color Palette Settings" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RAW, PNG, AI, NEF, PSB, DNG, SVG, GIF, EPS, JPG, ARW or PDF files to COLORS, try Krita or another comparable tool in the "Application Color Palette Settings" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our COLORS converter.